Lesson learned after superstorm sandy. Cbs 2s Steve Langford has more now on the storm preps up and down the jersey shore. Reporter belmar, new jersey, is a town that does not believe in taking any chances should a storm named joaquin come crashing in. From the bulldozers creating sand berms on the beach to the pumping of lake como here. By lowering this lake we help mitigate against flooding into all the homes that surround it. So we have hundreds of families that are right now scared. Reporter belmar mayor matt doherty says the people are haunted by the ghosts of sandy. We have learned a lot of lessons from sandy and we have a lot of resources now we never had before. So pray for the people of belmar, too,. Reporter a preventive ditch being dug on the beach in asbury park. In in longin sea bright, new jersey, this is tiny Center Street which as you can see if joaquin comes in, its going to hit hard. We just bought the house a year ago from an owner who got hit by sandy. Reporter jake
On the get severe storms alert tab right at the top of the screen and well walk you right through it. Turning to other news. Breaking news on the latest legionnaire cluster in the bronx. One person has died from that disease and the number of cases in morris park has jumped to ed ed 13 and this is also new. 15 cooling towers have now tested positive for the bacteria. John chandler is gathering details for us right now. John . Chuck, thats right. This is the first death that is attributed to this cluster here in morris park and that has residents i spoke here in the bronx downright terrified over this developing situation. It has the city even with all of those new cooling tower regulations that went into act this past september has the city fighting to stay in control of this. We have a situation here in this Broader Community that i want to say at the outset is different than what we experienced a couple weeks back in the south bronx. Calming fears in morris park, mayor bill deblasio
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